But I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part of himself; it was the honey of his temper; it was the balm of his mellow mood; he imparted it, as the ripe fruit rewards with sweetness the rifling bee; he diffused it about him, as sweet plants shed their perfume.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
But he laid hold of me with both his hands and spoke piteously, saying, 'Sir, do not force me to go with you, but let me stay here, for I know you will not bring one of them back with you, nor even return alive yourself; let us rather see if we cannot escape at any rate with the few that are left us, for we may still save our lives.' "'Stay where you are, then,' answered I, 'eating and drinking at the ship, but I must go, for I am most urgently bound to do so.'
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer
The Lord had commanded him to let no one in during his absence, so Peter stood by the door and kept watch.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm
p. 70, 71,) who transcribes the poetical complaint of Jabalah himself, and some panegyrical strains of an Arabian poet, to whom the chief of Gassan sent from Constantinople a gift of five hundred pieces of gold by the hands of the ambassador of Omar.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
147 The Old Man Made Young Again In the time when our Lord still walked this earth, he and St. Peter stopped one evening at a smith's and received free quarters.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm
His mother went up to him as he lay groaning; she laid her hand upon his head and spoke piteously, saying, "My son, why are you thus weeping?
— from The Iliad by Homer
Never before had a subject presenting so many curious features arisen.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest
"On the day Godolphin fell, Harley expounded his 'moderate' programme in a letter to the Duke of Newcastle: 'The Queen is assured you will approve her proceedings, which are directed to the sole aim of making an honourable and safe peace, securing her allies, reserving the liberty and property of the subject, and the indulgence to Dissenters in particular, and to perpetuate this by really securing the succession of the House of Hanover.'" 1 Alone, either the antagonism to the war or the intensity of feeling for the High-Church cause which the Sacheverell affair engendered, would have been sufficient to sweep the Whigs from power.
— from Atalantis Major by Daniel Defoe
When it was the youngest’s turn to watch, he went to the village blacksmith and got him to make an iron club weighing two hundred and sixty pounds; so heavy was it that the blacksmith and his assistants could hardly turn it on the anvil.
— from Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodzko
As the explorer again took up his weary way, physically weak and in constant pain, the buoyant spirit rose above hardship, and Scotch pluck smiled at impossibilities.
— from Stories Worth Rereading by Various
Half a shake, Padre Sahib, till we get our towels, and nous sommes avec vous !” H2 anchor
— from Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
A kind friend (Lieutenant Dansey of the Bombay army, late Assistant Political Agent of Aden, who knew the characters of all the Somali well) offered to procure me a man as guide and interpreter who had formerly performed, during the time of his appointment, some political service in the Somali country, with great credit both to his mission and himself.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
Willie Sanderson shook his head, and significantly pointed seaward.
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice
"He will come here, and sit perfectly still," she said, "until he wishes he was dead.
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris
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